²¹ Therefore, hand their children over to famine,^(A)
and give them over to the power of the sword.
Let their wives become childless and widowed,
their husbands slain by deadly disease,^[a]
their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

¹⁵ The destroyer of Moab and its towns
has come up,^[a]
and the best of its young men
have gone down to slaughter.
This is the King’s declaration;
the Lord of Armies is his name.^(A)